June 1, 2009

Homecoming – North and West

To celebrate Scotland’s ‘Year of Homecoming’ the Small Islands Film Festival 2009 focuses on the theme of ‘home’ and homecoming’ in a packed programme of screenings and discussions of award-winning shorts, documentaries, drama-docs and rare archive films from the world’s island communities ‘North and West’. Our third annual festival event will run on the Isle of Benbecula, Western Isles over the dates 19-21st June 2009. Please note that the main venue is the Screen Machine: Take 2 which will be located outside the Dark Island Hotel, Liniclate. A parallel programme of screenings will also take place in the St Kilda Suite, Dark Island Hotel.

Please refer to full and updated programme, booking details, and highlights features by clicking on 2009 above. Read on for further details of this and previous festival events.

From Nunavut, Canada: the European Premier of Isuma Productions’ Exile (2009) a searing account of loss of home and resilience on a High Arctic island and the Scottish premiere of TheJournals of Knud Rasmussen (2007) plus associated rare Scottish archive films by Jenny Gilbertson in the High Arctic and Isobel Wylie Hutchison in Greenland

From Barra and Italy: Tim Neat’s Play Me Something (1989)

From Ireland: a 50th Anniversary screening of Mise Eire (1959) and Ciarin Scott;s Waiting for the Light (2008) on the life and work of its director, Irish film-maker George Morrison

From the Uists and the Western Isles: New island talent in award winning Film G shorts on the Screen Machine ‘big screen’!

From Sweden: ‘Bergman and Fårö Island’, an insight into world stature film-maker, Ingmar, Bergman, and his small island home

From Scotland: Gaelic documentaries on ‘home’ and ‘homecoming’ in Scotland’s islands of the North and West

Live link to Igloolik, Nunavut on film, minority language and culture plus discussions with guest film-makers from Scotland, Ireland and Canada

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Oirbh do Ghàidhealtachd 2007

This inaugural event forms part of the Nan Eileanan Iar's contribution to the celebration of Highland and Gaidhealtachd culture in Oirbh do Ghàidhealtachd 2007.

Where will it be?

The event will be on the small island of Eriskay in the Western Isles. The programme of screenings and discussion will take place in the Screen Machine, which will visit Eriskay for the first time, and the community hall. The Feis will also host a Ceilidh on Saturday 16th June at Am Politician bar and other social events throughout the weekend.